We're looking for an experienced, hands-on Tech Lead to accelerate our product innovation. This isn't just a coding job; it's a chance to blend deep backend expertise with product strategy. You will be the engine driving rapid, data-driven product experiments, leveraging AI and Machine Learning to create smart, personalised financial solutions. You'll lead by example, mentoring a small, dedicated team and ensuring technical excellence and rapid deployment in the high-stakes financial domain.
Responsibilities
- Rapid Prototyping : Design and execute quick, iterative experiments to validate new features and market hypotheses, moving from concept to production in days, not months.
- AI-Powered Features : Build scalable Python-based backend services that integrate AI / ML models to enhance customer profiling, portfolio recommendation, and risk analysis.
- System Architecture : Own the performance, stability, and scalability of our core fintech platform, implementing best practices in modern backend development.
- Agile Catalyst : Drive and optimize Agile sprints, ensuring clear technical milestones, efficient resource allocation, backlog grooming and maintaining a laser focus on preventing scope creep.
- Mentorship and Management : Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of developers, fostering a culture of high performance, code quality, and continuous learning.
- Domain Alignment : Translate complex financial requirements and market insights into precise, actionable technical specifications and seamless user stories.
- Problem Solver : Proactively identify and resolve technical and process bottlenecks, acting as the ultimate problem solver for the engineering and product teams.
- High-Value Delivery : Apply deep knowledge of the mutual fund and broader fintech landscape to inform product decisions, ensuring our solutions are compliant, competitive, and truly valuable to our clients, and optimise.
- Risk & Security : Proactively architect solutions with security and financial risk management baked in from the ground up, protecting client data and assets.
Requirements
Mindset : A verifiable track record as a proactive First Principle Problem Solver with an intense passion to Ship, production-ready features frequently.Customer Empathy : Keeps the customer's experience in mind at all times.Team Leadership : Experience in leading, mentoring, or managing a small development team, driving technical excellence and project delivery.Systems Thinker : Diagnoses and solves problems by viewing the organisation as an interconnected system to anticipate broad impacts and develop holistic, strategic solutions.Backend Powerhouse : 2+ years of professional experience with a strong focus on backend development.Python Guru : Expert proficiency in Python and related frameworks (e. g., Django, Flask) for building robust, scalable APIs and services.AI / ML Integration : Proven ability to leverage and integrate AI / ML models into production-level applications.Data Driven : Expert in SQL for complex data querying, analysis, and ETL processes. Ship production-ready.Financial Domain Acumen : Strong, demonstrable knowledge of financial products, especially mutual funds, wealth management, and key fintech metrics.Nice-to-haves
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).Familiarity with Zoho Analytics, Zoho CRM and Zoho Deluge.Familiarity with modern data analysis tools and visualisation platforms (e. g., Mixpanel, Tableau, or custom dashboard tools).Understanding of Mutual Fund, AIF, and PMS operations.This job was posted by Sangeeta Bhagwat from Bakerstreet Digital.
Skills Required
Django, Machine Learning, Gcp, Docker, Flask, Ai, Azure, Kubernetes, Python, Sql, Aws